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'Animal lawyers' vote attracts foreign press attention
by Marcus Berry
February 9, 2010 | 10:06
With the impact of last year's minaret referendum still reverberating around the country and the world, voters in Switzerland are gearing up to decide another issue starting to catch the attention of the international press – whether specialist lawyers should be assigned to represent domesticated animals in a court of law. Groups in Switzerland take sides ahead of the March 7 vote and the outcome is far from certain.
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